different between leed vs leud

English

Etymology 1

From Middle English leed, lede, shortened variant of leden (“language”), from Old English l?oden (“popular or national language, native tongue”), from Old English l?od (“people, nation”). Cognate with Scots leed (“language”). More at lede.

Noun

leed (plural leeds)

1. (Britain dialectal, Northern England, Scotland) Language; tongue.
2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A national tongue (in contrast to a foreign language).
3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) The speech of a person or class of persons; form of speech; talk; utterance; manner of speaking or writing; phraseology; diction.

Related terms

• lede

Etymology 2

From Middle English lede, led, leod, variant of Middle English leth, leoth (“song, poem”), from Old English l?oþ (“song, poem, ode, lay, verse”), from Proto-Germanic *leuþ? (“song, lay, praise”), from Proto-Indo-European *l?w- (“to sound, resound, sing out”). Cognate with Dutch lied (“song”), German Lied (“song”).

Noun

leed (plural leeds)

1. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A strain in a rhyme, song, or poem; refrain; flow.
2. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) A constant or repeated line or verse; theme.
3. (Britain dialectal, Scotland) Patter; rigmarole.

Related terms

• lied

Anagrams

• LEDE, deel, dele, lede

Dutch

Pronunciation

• Rhymes: -e?t

Etymology 1

From Middle Dutch lêet, from Old Dutch *l?th, from Proto-Germanic *laiþ?.

Noun

leed n (uncountable)

1. grief, sorrow
2. harm

Etymology 2

From Middle Dutch lêet, from Old Dutch l?th, from Proto-Germanic *laiþaz.

Adjective

leed (comparative leder, superlative leedst)

1. (Belgium) angry
2. sad

Inflection

Etymology 3

See the etymology of the main entry.

Verb

leed

1. singular past indicative of lijden

Anagrams

• deel, dele, edel, lede

Luxembourgish

Etymology

From Old High German leid. Cognate with German leid, Dutch leed.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /le?t/
• Rhymes: -e?t
• Homophone: Leed

Adverb

leed

1. (in expressions) grievous; cumbersome

   Ech sinn et leed. — “I’m fed up with it.”

   Dat deet mer leed. — “I’m sorry.”

   Hatt deet mer leed. — “I pity her.”

Related terms

• Leed

Middle English

Alternative forms

• lede, leod, leode, also leude, lude

Etymology 1

From Old English l?ode (“people, men”), plural of l?od (“man, person”) (masc.), also “nation, people group, ethnicity, nationality” (fem.), akin to Old Frisian liod, Old Saxon liud, Old Norse ljóðr, lýðr, Old High German liut, Dutch lieden, German Leute (“people”). Akin to Old English l?odan (“to grow, spring forth”).

Noun

leed (plural common noun and collective noun, plural leeds or leeden)

1. People; persons collectively.
2. Countrymen, compatriots; vassals.
3. Man, person; human being.
4. Race, nation; nationality; kindred.

Etymology 2

Unknown

Noun

leed

1. A copper kettle or caldron.
   • 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales

     That stemed as a forneys of a leed

Scots

Alternative forms

• lede, leid, led, leide, leyd, leyde, leit

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /li?d/

Etymology

From earlier leed, from Middle English lede, reduced form of leden, leoden (“language”), from Old English l?oden (“national language", literally, "of the people”), from Old English l?ode (“people”). More at lede.

Alternative forms

• leid, lied

Noun

leed (plural leeds)

1. language

Usage notes

• Commonly understood language, either literally or metaphorically:

  A daena speak the leed.

Spanish

Verb

leed

1. (Spain) Informal second-person plural (vosotros or vosotras) affirmative imperative form of leer.

Yola

Etymology

From Middle English led, from Old English l?ad, from Proto-West Germanic *laud.

Noun

leed

1. lead

References

• Jacob Poole (1867) , William Barnes, editor, A glossary, with some pieces of verse, of the old dialect of the English colony in the baronies of Forth and Bargy, County of Wexford, Ireland, J. Russell Smith, ?ISBN

English

Etymology

1750, from Medieval Latin leud?s pl (“vassals or followers of the king”), from Frankish *liudi (“people”), from Proto-Germanic *liudiz (“people”), from Proto-Indo-European *h?léwd?is (“man, people”). Cognate with Old High German liuti (“people, subordinates”), Gothic *???????????????????? (*liuþs), Old English l?od (“chief, man”). More at lede and leod.

Pronunciation

• enPR: lo?od, IPA^(key): /lu?d/

• Rhymes: -u?d

• Homophone: lewd

Noun

leud (plural leuds or leudes)

1. (historical) A vassal or tenant in the early Middle Ages. (Can we add an example for this sense?)

Synonyms

• antrustion

Anagrams

• ULed, duel, lude, lued

Middle English

Adjective

leud

1. Alternative form of lewed

Scottish Gaelic

Noun

leud m (genitive singular leòid, plural leudan)

1. breadth, width

Derived terms

• a leud
• domhan-leud